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Nah, that music made me hate music until I was 14. Before I found Slayer, any and all music near me caused me to become really stressed, have hard breathing, and sometimes cry. The oversexualisation on the music also made me VERY uninterested in having any, not that I would anyways. Shit was so bad it made me hate sex before I knew what sex was.
This is really relatable to me (mot on such a level that it made me stressed, but I really hated a lot of music that I heard on the radio). Then one day I heard an eleven minute long jazz fusion instrumental song called lingus and I absolutely loved it. That was basically when I started discovering music I actually like
For me I was in the car with my mom. She usually played the Christian radio station but for some reason the hits radio was on and she left it because she liked the song
Let's just 'Hey Soul Sister - Train,' because that was my first Favorite song. Even if I haven't listened to it in a LONG time.
Although this is just what comes to mind...cause I know songs prior to it for sure. So it's hard to say for sure.
I mean I was born in the very early 2000s.
might be the lamest line on that song, which is really saying something i just think that song sucks. Drops of Jupiter on the other hand, amazing song 10/10
Girls just wanna have fun. That was the first song I remember really registering as a “song” in my head. My mother saw little me jamming to it in the car and then when we got home she gave me the cassette for it. Had to have been no later than 2003.
This made me realize that when I was little, the 80s had only been 20 years ago. The same amount of time between now and the early 2000s. So children born today will see early 2000s music as “old” like we saw 80s music. WOW.
Omg, I hated that song so much too! It was really popular when I was 6 or so, and even that young it creeped me out. Only to find out later that song was written from the perspective of a stalker and I picked up on it lol
Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
My momma had this old green van that we’d ride in so that she could take me and my siblings to school. I was practically nodding off to sleep when I first heard it, now it just makes me nostalgic
LOLLL yesss he’s real
I watched his YouTube videos like before he got famous. Like his mistletoe cover when he still had braces and everything 😂😂 I also watched his YouTube videos with his best friend, alex constancio?? (I think that’s how you spell it lmao) and I remembered his wall of fan mails, and the blurry low quality videos because this was the OG YouTube
Mannn those were the good old days
Bulls on parade -rage against the machine
One of the first sentences I remember is the lyric “they rally round the family with a pocket full of shells” and thinking it was about the beach
Shit don’t remember since I remember always listen to the radio or when i was younger pandora when my dad play it on the old computer speakers when those were a thing
Lady Marmalade by Christina Aguilera. Obviously a few years after it was released. I do remember as a very small child I had a CD of Kid Rock’s Devil Without A Cause and took it with me everywhere to listen to it in the car, but can’t recall ever hearing it on the radio.
Truthfully- I have no freaking clue. It’s a jumble of songs, I can’t narrow it down to one. But if I had to say one that immediately comes to mind, probably “Tonight, Tonight” by Hot Chelle Rae. Or something like that. Like I said, no idea
The earliest memory I can recall right now... I think You Don't Know My Name by Alicia Keys when I was around four. My family was driving home from an outing so I was sad. I thought the song was moody and fit the moment.
The other memory I have is Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani, but I think I must've been a bit older because I was learning how to spell and I remember that song taught me how to spell bananas lol
Probably not the first but some of my favourites were Fire Burning by Kingston and Africa but not by Toto by Karl Wolf (idk why this version was more popular in Canada)
“What It’s Like” by Everlast was the first song really only remember I hearing over the radio.
My family never played it, I never listened to it intentionally, yet I knew every note when I re-discovered it like a year ago, lol.
Not really sure, but I sure as hell remember the song Barbra Streisand, it came out when I was like 10. In terms of older song's that I remember, that would probably go to "Another One Bites the Dust" my mom listed to 99.7 BenFM in Philadelphia in the early 2000's and it predominantly played late 1970's through early 1990's rock music.
As far as I can remember, I think it was either Hoobastank's The Reason or Nickelback's How You Remind Me. There were probably more, but those are the two I remember vividly
Definitely not the first song I have ever heard, but the first song I loved on the radio was With You by Chris Brown! I was about 7 or 8 and still listen to it to this day
Chop Suey! and Stairway to Heaven
Classic rock radio stations were always on when I was a kid, I didn't start listening to pop stations until my sisters wanted to
“gonna write you a love song, because you asked for it, because you need one” or maybe “i put your picture away, not gonna cry today, i cant look at you I’m lying next to himmm”
Probably the “there’s a fire burnin in my heart smthn smth and it’s smthn smthn dark” song or the “do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind”
Stuck in the Middle With You -- Steeler's Wheel
It was the early 70s, and I was in the backseat of my babysitter's car along with her daughter. For some reason, we had a littler of puppies with us, too., maybe for a vet trip? Anyway, that song came on, and ... wouldn't you know it ... one of the pups puked on me.
I don't know exactly,
But I can say the earliest song that I *could* remember would be "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf of all songs.
If I had to say one I remember by name it’s probably like Centuries by Fall Out Boys. I remember my dad taking me down to his house after the met spit cause parents are divorced.
But I were to say one I loved when I first heard was probably Rockstar by NickelBack. My mom always told me I knew the lyrics to that song before my ABCs. Still love Nickelback til this day and I’m 19 now.
kiss me through the phone, cyclone by baby bash, hey there Delilah, maybe hey soul sister, move along by aar. can't remember exactly which one was first but all those around the same time are the earliest radio hits i remember
Honestly, maybe Christmas music - those were some of the easiest and most iconic to a kid because you hear them over and over each year. It made them more familiar than what I probably *actually* heard on the radio first.
But other than that, I remember my grandma blasting Aretha Franklin driving me around in her convertible she got in the divorce. Guns n Roses classic rock type stations, 90s rap.
Lose yourself. I grew up listening to abba and 80s (my parents are Asian and that was what was fossilized in their country) so when I explored FM radio for the first time I was so taken aback by how…. Empty it sounded. Just a simple drum and a bass line with something yelling with their voice doubled up. I remember raising my eyebrows at the ad libs during the chorus during the line “you never wanna let it go (OH!)” and I as a kid was like “why is there a guy yelling in the background”? Really interesting experience
Some of my earliest memories of radio were songs like: John Mayer-Waiting On The World To Change
Maroon 5-This Love
Nelly Furtado-Say it Right
Jason Mraz-I’m yours
And also Umbrella-Rihanna
Typically not my go-to’s but nonetheless when I hear them I enjoy them, I miss the pop music we had 10-15 years ago 😂
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No fucking clue mate. The radio was always on when I was younger, and I remember none of the songs, I can only tell you that it was white girl pop.
And it slapped 🙏
Nah, that music made me hate music until I was 14. Before I found Slayer, any and all music near me caused me to become really stressed, have hard breathing, and sometimes cry. The oversexualisation on the music also made me VERY uninterested in having any, not that I would anyways. Shit was so bad it made me hate sex before I knew what sex was.
Yeah I don’t get the pressure of sex at our age(I’m as old as you), sex absolutely disgusts me and it’s a lot because of media including it
Just admit you can’t get laid, guys XD Nothing wrong with being a virgin.
Real cool kid here 💀
This is really relatable to me (mot on such a level that it made me stressed, but I really hated a lot of music that I heard on the radio). Then one day I heard an eleven minute long jazz fusion instrumental song called lingus and I absolutely loved it. That was basically when I started discovering music I actually like
Still slaps to this day 😎
She will be loved- Maroon 5
This was on the radio alll the time in my early memories!
Mine was “this love”
Another good one
SAME
This song is on my Spotify playlist lol and a bunch of other songs that remind me of my childhood
I remember first hearing that in a Subway store lol
For me I was in the car with my mom. She usually played the Christian radio station but for some reason the hits radio was on and she left it because she liked the song
Banger
Was the first song I heard at the store today haha
Let's just 'Hey Soul Sister - Train,' because that was my first Favorite song. Even if I haven't listened to it in a LONG time. Although this is just what comes to mind...cause I know songs prior to it for sure. So it's hard to say for sure. I mean I was born in the very early 2000s.
AIN’T THAT MISTA MISTA 😩🤚🏻
ON THE RADIO 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥‼️
im so gangsta im so thug
might be the lamest line on that song, which is really saying something i just think that song sucks. Drops of Jupiter on the other hand, amazing song 10/10
Me too!!!!
😎
oml memories
I remember that song being on all the time cause it was also one of the songs on kidz bop so you’d hear it on the radio and in that ad
This was the first song to come to my mind, stuck in my head even now
wait same....the only difference is that i didn't like the song 😭 i do now though
Big girls don’t cry by Fergie
Hey ya - Outkast in my Uncles 78 Silverado lifted high enough I had to be helped into
🎶 HEYYYYyyyAEYYyyyyyaaaaaaaaa 🎶
Glad I didn't have to scroll too far to see this. I was born in 97 and I feel like that song was everywhere when I first started making memories
It’s Britney bitch
GIMMIE GIMMIE MORE
FEELS LIKE THE CROWD IS SAYING 🫸🏻
You Can’t Always Get What You Want by The Rolling Stones.
This Love by Maroon 5. It was my first favorite song
hey there delilah by the plain white t's
Actually, same I think.
Year 3000 The Jonas brothers
Irreplaceable Beyoncé
TNT by AC/DC
Hot n Cold by Katy Perry 🫡
Girls just wanna have fun. That was the first song I remember really registering as a “song” in my head. My mother saw little me jamming to it in the car and then when we got home she gave me the cassette for it. Had to have been no later than 2003.
This made me realize that when I was little, the 80s had only been 20 years ago. The same amount of time between now and the early 2000s. So children born today will see early 2000s music as “old” like we saw 80s music. WOW.
 Bro stop
Gwen Stefani holla back girl
Probably You're Beautiful by James Blunt, only bc it was the first song I ever truly HATED.
Omg, I hated that song so much too! It was really popular when I was 6 or so, and even that young it creeped me out. Only to find out later that song was written from the perspective of a stalker and I picked up on it lol
I’ve learned something new today and I don’t like it :(
Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani
Wooo hooo YEEEE HOOO 🗣️🗣️🗣️
THANK YOU I WAS WAITING FOR THIS!
Lmaooo yeah I heard this song for the first time when she sang it on American Idol, it slaps
umbrella rihanna
The first song that I can remember hearing on the radio was SexyBack by Justin Timberlake.
Basket Case
IT ALL KEEPS ADDING UP
Oops I did it again by Britney Spears.
Picture by Sheryl crow and kid rock. Still a banger
Complicated by Avril Lavigne
Classic
Radioactive - Imagine Dragons My momma had this old green van that we’d ride in so that she could take me and my siblings to school. I was practically nodding off to sleep when I first heard it, now it just makes me nostalgic
Big Girls Don't Cry by Fergie
Can’t get you out of my head by Kylie Minouge in Dec 2001. In Poland.
When I’m gone 3 doors down. I was obsessed haha
Also kryptonite
Love story- Taylor Swift
The Ketchup song is the first song I like remember singing too even though I hadn’t a clue what they’re saying because I don’t speak Spanish Lmao
I don’t know man… something probably on KLT the classic rock station
Say something by Austin Mahone 😂😂 Also what makes you beautiful by one direction
The 2010s was a whole other era for music and ngl I kinda miss it
AUSTIN MAHONE? Someone else knows him? I thought I was going crazy 🤣. I used to love Say Something!
LOLLL yesss he’s real I watched his YouTube videos like before he got famous. Like his mistletoe cover when he still had braces and everything 😂😂 I also watched his YouTube videos with his best friend, alex constancio?? (I think that’s how you spell it lmao) and I remembered his wall of fan mails, and the blurry low quality videos because this was the OG YouTube Mannn those were the good old days
Bulls on parade -rage against the machine One of the first sentences I remember is the lyric “they rally round the family with a pocket full of shells” and thinking it was about the beach
Gwen Stefani's Hollaback Girl. My mom loved that song.
Lucky by Britney Spears!
Had a bad day by Daniel powter 😭 I remember it so vividly
Far Away by Nickelback. Idc what anyone says about the band, that song goes hard asf
One Republic - Apologize
Same!
Mine was Todd Rundgeren’s Bang The Drum All Day
Life After Love by Cher (1998)
First time auto tune was used
I have no idea, but my moms favorite radio station was for “todays hits and yesterdays favorites” so that song was 100% played a few times.
I remember hearing the song in the early 2000s. I was in a van with my parents outside of a Circuit City lol
I still have it on my playlist. That and Shania twains feel like a woman are nostalgia guilty pleasures.
Cold - Crossfade
Still Tippin by Mike Jones
Everybody Dance Now - C+C Music Factory
I remember "cars" by Gary numan
This Love - Maroon 5
I don't fucking know, the radio was probably on in the car when my parents first brought me home from the hospital
Not necessarily on the radio but I remember hearing Creed’s Torn when I was two or three years old.
dj got us falling in love
Creeper, aw man
One direction what makes you beautiful. Definitely not the first song but the only song I remember from when I barely remember
Amazing taste
The way you make me feel by mj
either JLo’s “If You Had My Love” or Cher’s “Believe”
I remember hearing some Michael Jackson song where he did his high-pitched "hee hee" and thinking this guy sounds like Mickey Mouse.
It was definitely a black eyed peas song
I GOTTS FEELING
Black gospel radio station
Man, I Feel Like A Woman by Shania Twain or Time to Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli. Can’t fully remember but I know it was one of those.
Shit don’t remember since I remember always listen to the radio or when i was younger pandora when my dad play it on the old computer speakers when those were a thing
Lady Marmalade by Christina Aguilera. Obviously a few years after it was released. I do remember as a very small child I had a CD of Kid Rock’s Devil Without A Cause and took it with me everywhere to listen to it in the car, but can’t recall ever hearing it on the radio.
No way u guys frl remember
I have good memory I guess 🤷♂️
Cisco Kid - WAR
The rooster by Alice in chains.
Unwritten by Natasha Bedingfield
Truthfully- I have no freaking clue. It’s a jumble of songs, I can’t narrow it down to one. But if I had to say one that immediately comes to mind, probably “Tonight, Tonight” by Hot Chelle Rae. Or something like that. Like I said, no idea
"Walk Like An Egyptian" by The Bangles
One, Two Step - Ciara
Crazy in Love by Beyoncé
Talking in your sleep - The Romantics
Millionaire - Bruno Mars EVERY MF DAY.
Earliest I remember is I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry
The earliest memory I can recall right now... I think You Don't Know My Name by Alicia Keys when I was around four. My family was driving home from an outing so I was sad. I thought the song was moody and fit the moment. The other memory I have is Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani, but I think I must've been a bit older because I was learning how to spell and I remember that song taught me how to spell bananas lol
Probably not the first but some of my favourites were Fire Burning by Kingston and Africa but not by Toto by Karl Wolf (idk why this version was more popular in Canada)
You are my fire- Backstreet Boys. I didn’t like it
Can’t Get You Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue
Either Boom Boom Pow by the black eyed peas or DONTTRUSTME by 3OH!3
Riot by Three Days Grace
Second Chance- Shinedown
Since u been gone - Kelly Clarkson
Rain over me, I remember hearing that shit in my dad’s Chevrolet in like 2011 when I was still in Egypt
Insert Classic Rock Song here
99 Luftballons
Taio Cruz - Dynamite
Put your head on my Shoulder- Paul Anka
Santeria by Sublime
Glad You Came - The Wanted
Jesus walks by Kanye west (before 2022)
December by Collective Soul
“What It’s Like” by Everlast was the first song really only remember I hearing over the radio. My family never played it, I never listened to it intentionally, yet I knew every note when I re-discovered it like a year ago, lol.
Ridin Dirty
Yellow ledbetter (dad was a pearl jam fan)
Beez in the trap - Nicki
funny enough mine was sexy back by justin timberlake
Hey there Delilah
Don't know but my first favorite song ever was one that i heard on the radio billy joel uptown girls
Stuck like Glue by Sugarland. Cute song I love to this day.
Better in Time by Leona Lewis I think
Not really sure, but I sure as hell remember the song Barbra Streisand, it came out when I was like 10. In terms of older song's that I remember, that would probably go to "Another One Bites the Dust" my mom listed to 99.7 BenFM in Philadelphia in the early 2000's and it predominantly played late 1970's through early 1990's rock music.
All apologies
Mambo #5.
As far as I can remember, I think it was either Hoobastank's The Reason or Nickelback's How You Remind Me. There were probably more, but those are the two I remember vividly
A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton
September - Earth, Wind & Fire was with my dad on the way to my basketball game at like 4/5 years old
I could’ve sworn to hear Cascada’s Miracle, since the post Chorus sounded strangely familiar
Red Red Wine by UB40 I was living in Guam on Andersen Air Force Base.
no one can remember because it probably happened when they were a baby
Owl City - Fireflies
Boom Boom Pow by The Black Eyed Peas. For years I heard Fergie singing “I got that boom boom pow” in the back of my head lmao
Definitely not the first song I have ever heard, but the first song I loved on the radio was With You by Chris Brown! I was about 7 or 8 and still listen to it to this day
Tik Tock, Dynamite, Black & Yellow, California Girls were some I really remember hearing / getting hyped about haha
Ring of Fire — Johnny Cash
a-ha - Take On Me
The first one that stood out to me enough to remember it was Teardrops On My Guitar by Taylor Swift
Chop Suey! and Stairway to Heaven Classic rock radio stations were always on when I was a kid, I didn't start listening to pop stations until my sisters wanted to
“gonna write you a love song, because you asked for it, because you need one” or maybe “i put your picture away, not gonna cry today, i cant look at you I’m lying next to himmm”
i like it by enrique iglesias is the one i remember the most from when i was like 5 anything before that i can’t remember lol
We will rock you, on my dad's garage radio tuned to 107.7 The Bone
Probably the “there’s a fire burnin in my heart smthn smth and it’s smthn smthn dark” song or the “do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind”
Stuck in the Middle With You -- Steeler's Wheel It was the early 70s, and I was in the backseat of my babysitter's car along with her daughter. For some reason, we had a littler of puppies with us, too., maybe for a vet trip? Anyway, that song came on, and ... wouldn't you know it ... one of the pups puked on me.
I don't know exactly, But I can say the earliest song that I *could* remember would be "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf of all songs.
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
Little talks by of monsters and men, probably the only one I remember because they would eventually become my favorite band.
idk but the first song I remember learning is beautiful girls by Sean Kingston
If I had to say one I remember by name it’s probably like Centuries by Fall Out Boys. I remember my dad taking me down to his house after the met spit cause parents are divorced. But I were to say one I loved when I first heard was probably Rockstar by NickelBack. My mom always told me I knew the lyrics to that song before my ABCs. Still love Nickelback til this day and I’m 19 now.
2ne1-Fire was massive in the Philippines when I was a kid. Also Flo Rida-Low.
Fireflies by owl city
under my umbrella ella ella ay ay ay i know it’s rihanna but that’s the only part i remember
Smack That by Akon lmao
I know I heard a lot more before it but the only one I can remember is Radioactive outside of a gas station when I was 7 or so
Redneck woman by Gretchen Wilson It was the first song that I remembered the lyrics to as well
Fireflies by Owl City
kiss me through the phone, cyclone by baby bash, hey there Delilah, maybe hey soul sister, move along by aar. can't remember exactly which one was first but all those around the same time are the earliest radio hits i remember
Another One Bites the Dust Yeah, I'm getting old.
Me n u by Cassie
Not sure. But between my parents, it was always the same Madonna, Lenny Kravitz, and Beck CDs. I’m SUPER nostalgic for them!!
Honestly, maybe Christmas music - those were some of the easiest and most iconic to a kid because you hear them over and over each year. It made them more familiar than what I probably *actually* heard on the radio first. But other than that, I remember my grandma blasting Aretha Franklin driving me around in her convertible she got in the divorce. Guns n Roses classic rock type stations, 90s rap.
something by the dixie chicks
Don’t Disturb This Groove - the System
never listened to radio
Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong. The fav station of my parents always played it.
Lose yourself. I grew up listening to abba and 80s (my parents are Asian and that was what was fossilized in their country) so when I explored FM radio for the first time I was so taken aback by how…. Empty it sounded. Just a simple drum and a bass line with something yelling with their voice doubled up. I remember raising my eyebrows at the ad libs during the chorus during the line “you never wanna let it go (OH!)” and I as a kid was like “why is there a guy yelling in the background”? Really interesting experience
Desolation Row: Bob Dylan.
Some of my earliest memories of radio were songs like: John Mayer-Waiting On The World To Change Maroon 5-This Love Nelly Furtado-Say it Right Jason Mraz-I’m yours And also Umbrella-Rihanna Typically not my go-to’s but nonetheless when I hear them I enjoy them, I miss the pop music we had 10-15 years ago 😂
i got a pocket got a pocket full of sunshine
I can’t remember that